“When you attempt to sever spiritual matters from political matters, it is akin to removing the soul from the body. The body dies. And that is what we are seeing in the West. The body is dying because we’ve attempted to sever the spiritual or theological from politics.”
The election was days away. He knew his congregation was divided, some would vote Republican, other Democrat, others third party. And he knew that more than a few would oppose his ballot if they ever discovered how he voted, which he was scrupulous to obscure. For weeks, emails had piled up with various members encouraging him to say something. The administrative assistant kept hounding him to reply. But he couldn’t bring himself to do it.
The elder board of the church was split politically, and the tension exhausted him. He didn’t get into ministry to get political. He just wanted to equip people to love God and love others not navigate landmines every election cycle.
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